The Tàpies Foundation of Barcelona celebrates 25 years

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Tàpies Museum will open its doors free of charge between 18 am and 24 am next Friday, December 11, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its opening, according to the Barcelona institution today.

The public visiting the 11th during those hours at the headquarters of the Foundation can be visited at different exposure routes commented “Tàpies. Collection of the artist” and discover other areas of the center as the file or to attend the concert of Saxon Wolf.

Also, the 25-year catalog of publications of the Foundation, led by Clara Plasencia and Enric Farrés, and the book “Conversation with Manuel Borja-Villel,” by Manuel Borja-Villel, Marcelo Expósito and Jorge Ribalta will be presented.

On December 16, on the other hand, the books “Les arts de l’espace. Écrits interventions et sur l’architecture” will be presented by Joana Masó and David Bestué, and “unfinished Philosophy” by Marina Garces and Xavier Antich.

For the 17th is scheduled the presentation of “The procés llarg. Culture and politics to Catalunya contemporania  (1937-2014)”, with Jordi Amat and Jorge Luis Marzo, and “Bilbao Old Moon” with Joseba Zulaika and Carles Guerra .

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Mullican, Lopez and Llena, stars of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend

Internationally acclaimed artists will be among the protagonists of the first edition of a weekend full of exhibitions, actions and interventions

Barcelona Gallery Weekend

Internationally renowned artists as Matt Mullican, Antonio Lopez and Antoni Llena will be among the protagonists of the first edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, a weekend of exhibitions, actions and interventions in spaces that will be held from October 1st to 4th.

On behalf of the Association of Barcelona Art gallery, event organizer, Joan Anton Maragall explained today in the Gallery Weekend presentation aims to demonstrate “the artistic potential of the city” and place it between “international industry benchmark.”

It is an initiative in which Art Barcelona has been working for two years, and “from the beginning has attracted interest in the gallery sector, including in galleries that are not of this partnership.”

From the point of view of the artistic world gallerism, “Barcelona was very stop and had been difficult to find a consensus initiative taking, which was what the government asked us,” said Maragall.

The week aims, as Maragall, to “put Barcelona on the international contemporary art scene, galleries closer to town and retrieve local collectors.”

The Gallery Weekend, which includes the participation of the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat, and the support of the Ministry of Culture and the city of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, will offer a program based on four routes galleries, institutions and unusual spaces, plus other cultural, intellectual and social initiatives.

The kick-off will take place on October 1st in all spaces and galleries and curated at the MACBA, which will host the opening ceremony and open city in which attendees can see the museum exhibits until midnight.

Forty spaces, including 21 galleries, collected proposals for national and international artists, both contemporary and historical art.

The participating galleries show the best of their programming from internationally established artists as Matt Mullican, Antonio Lopez and Mladen Stilinovic to significant proposals such as Antoni Llena, Perejaume, Rogelio López Cuenca and Daniel G. Andújar and Francesc Ruiz, representative this year Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

In the galleries who bet on the historical avant-garde works by artists such as Joaquín Torres-García, coinciding with his retrospective at the MOMA in New York, Fausto Melotti Alberto Magnelli and in dialogue with Joan Miró, and group it shows exhibited works by Salvador Dalí Alexander Calder, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez, Miquel Barcelo, Antoni Miralda and Carlos Pazos.

The project already has precedents in Paris, Madrid and Berlin, with the participation of DNA galleries, Ana Mas Projects, Àngels Barcelona, ​​Artur Ramon, AL34, etHALL, Balaguer, Barbie Carles Taché, Estrany-de la Mota, Joan Prats, Marc Domenech, Marlborough, Senda, Sicart / Joan Gaspar, Trama, Nogueras Blanchard, Palmadotze, ProjecteSD and Sala Dalmau.

As a complementary activity, Barcelona Weekend Gallery will feature the “Compositions” program, a series of five projects commissioned for the occasion, curated by the team Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Canepa Moon).

Mariana Canepa reported that the selected artists are David Bestué, Dora Garcia, Jordi Mitjà, with Pere Llobera Nilausen Rasmus and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.

These artists continued Canepa, develop temporary interventions in unique venues outside the contemporary art circuit as the Freudian Field Library, the Geological Museum of the Seminary, the Umbracle the Ciutadella Park, the gardens of the Central del Raval or the old All Cosme industrial site in L’Hospitalet.

They have also been implicated in museums initiative and centers like the MACBA, the MNAC, the Picasso, the Blueproject Foundation, CaixaForum, the CCCB, the Center Key Art Room, the Miró foundations, Tàpies, Vila Casas, Sunol, Arranz-Bravo and Mies van der Rohe, and La Virreina Image Center.

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An exhibition of Picasso and Dali, jewel of Barcelona’s season in 2015

The Catalan capital will also include retrospectives dedicated to the Moche culture, still lifes Golden Age Spanish or Alvar Aalto

Portrait of Picasso In 1947 Dalí painted this fantastic piece of 64.1 x 54.7 inches portraying his colleague Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Both painters met on the first trip from Salvador to Paris, back in 1926 and exhibited works together on more than one occasion.

An exhibition on the relationship between Picasso and Dali is one of the main attractions of the artistic season start 2015 in Barcelona, which will also feature retrospectives dedicated to the Moche culture, still lifes Golden Age Spanish or Alvar Aalto.

Since March, the Museo Picasso show at the exhibition “Picasso / Dali. Dali / Picasso” the relationship between the two geniuses of universal art of the twentieth century, illustrated from eighty pieces, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.

In this first confrontation of the work of the two artists their relationship is drawn from the first trip to Paris Dali during the spring of 1926, when the painter ampurdanés visited the studio of Malaga, until its matching response to the barbarity of war Spanish civil or ideological disagreement from the 40s.

Another milestone of the Barcelona artistic season will be the exhibition “Gold, myths and rituals. Mochica Culture of Ancient Peru”, a project to display 200 masterpieces of pre-Columbian art from the Museo Larco Herrera, from pottery vessels textiles and jewelery to pieces and feathers.

CaixaForum remember from February the 25th anniversary of animation film studio Pixar, a show that started at the MOMA in New York in 2005 and over the years has grown to show audiences of all ages the scenes of feature animation company, with emblematic works like “Toy Story,” “Monsters,” “Cars” or “Ratatouille”.

The same cultural space Caixa will value between May and August the work of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), a key figure in architecture and design vanguard of the twentieth century; and display between June and September the exhibition “Animals, men and gods. The bestiary in Pharaonic Egypt,” which is on display at CaixaForum Madrid in the first half.

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) deployed from October 2015 a sample of fifteen lifes of Spanish artists of the Golden Age, including Juan de Zurbaran, Juan van der Hamen or Juan de Arellano, from a private collection , some of which will join the permanent collection and will be exhibited at the new presentation of art from Renaissance and Baroque, which will open in 2016.

Between June and October, the Tàpies Foundation will make a retrospective look at the work of Antoni Tàpies from the 1940s until his death in 2012, with emphasis on the evolution of typologies, techniques and materials used by the artist.

The Miró Foundation shine a new major project throughout 2015, with the rethinking of its permanent collection, which will incorporate new works.

This center will offer from March the exhibition “Prophetia”, which will showcase works by artists from all over Europe to reflect on Europe from the current economic, political and social crisis.

In season MACBA the exhibition “Proletarian Chamber Theatre” dedicated to Argentine Osvaldo Lamborghini (Buenos Aires, 1940 – Barcelona, 1985), which presents for the first time in a museum, the most comprehensive anthology of his artistic works, allowing understand the radicality of this artist stabbing still uncharted by the aesthetic accounts of the eighties.

The CCCB presented in March “The Sebald variations,” an exhibition that will take the German writer WG Sebald, author of some of the fundamental books of our new century, as a thread of a question mark on the history of the twentieth century and its projections in the XXI.

The exhibition will coincide with the Kosmópolis literary festival will be a count of the different ways that Sebald’s work has influenced the visual arts and literature since 2001.

In the field of photography, highlight two proposals that will review the work of Leopoldo Pomès, Xavier Miserachs and Gabriel Homes in La Pedrera, the MACBA and the MNAC respectively.

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